Solo Bikepacking

Bikepacking is like being a parent.  You are never ready!   Everybody gives you an opinion, everybody tells you that this and that is obligatory. Everybody tells you to carefully plan, everybody tells you the immense amounts of money you will need to spend.  But, like being a parent, you can do it your own way, survive it and even enjoy it! In fact, life is like that! I started bikepacking in 2018...not long a go...and...

Cycling vacations in the Portuguese coast

Some months ago I decided that this year I would ditch the car during my summer vacations, of course riding a bike. This post will document my summer vacation bike trip (before, during and after) and not be fully about "changes" you can make in your life. Like a personal post. Before the trip: There were lots of things to be decided: whom will I travel with? what would be the route, or if none, where I would want to go? What time do I reserve to...

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion

It is been about one year I decided to change my habbits a bit and start using more the bike to commute.I hate walking and so most of the times I would commute by car.It was a pleasant surprise to see some of my work colleagues bringing the bike to work, I guess motivated by my example.I guess sharing opinions is important but won't change too much. People actually seeing you do the stuff you promote and being happy with it may follow you. The best...

Minimalism - and why it is not about things

As everything in this blog, this post doesn't mean to be 100% term correct, super duper informative or extreme, just my view about this theme. Yesterday I went on a "Video Session" called "The Minimalists". This even was hosted by my inspirational friend Bernardo Conde at his "workplace" Trilhos da Terra. In fact this session was about this documentary and allowed us to discuss about it after watching it. This was not my first attempt to know...

Portuguese made bathroom choices

This days I see some people looking for alternatives to plastic bottled shower gel, so I decided I should show what I use and why.Again, this may not be the "perfect setup", but so far is where I am. Suggestions accepted. In fact it may be easier to explain my "method" for choices: Everything I try, I try to fit in this method. Now about the bathroom products: 1) Bar soap - more than one year ago I ditched plastic bottled shower gel. First I...

A phone in 2018

First about the title, why phone? Because most of us now have a smartphone, not a phone (which for me means either a dumb phone or a feature phone). Some months ago I was feeling too much connected to my smartphone, and constantly thinking that although I was connected to it I wasn't getting anything in return. Most of my social networks only show me products and not people. Most people will only show me cats and dogs and products and...it make no sense...since I am all day on the computer. I started searching and came to the conclusion that I...

Reduce, reuse and Re Cycle

Most people (me included) whenever approach a more ecological life style just think about buying.Buying new and more ecological stuff. Kind of going backwards right?That's it, if we want to be more ecological we must follow the 3R rule: reduce, reuse and recycle.And in my opinion by this same order.Due to my passion about bikes, riding bikes and being outdoor I was lurking a new GPS unit, since my Suunto Ambit 2 has very limited navigation capabilities. As...